What are some ways the average student can be green?

Question

What are some ways the average student can be green?

Answer 1

Kids and Classes can do a lot for world - Reduce Reuse and Recycle.  

Write on both sides of the paper, use scrap paper for craft projects  Make a craft out of trash so it can be reused. (Just wash everything first).  Turn the lights off when you aren't in the room.  Make a Worm Farm as a class project you could also create a school garden (look into the NWF Habitat Certification).

Answer 2

Watch what you throw in the trash. Every time you put something in the trash, try to think of a way to stop doing that. Use a reusable water bottle, rather than buying a new drink every time you're thirsty. Use a handkerchief rather than a Kleenex. Buy things that use less packaging.

Remember that the drain is a trash can too; the less water you put down it, the better.

Let your family know that these things are important to you. You may be able to do more good by changing their behavior than by changing your own.

And don't eat fish. Fisheries are collapsing by the boatload.

Answer 3

FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL

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Al Gore has a house that consumes more energy than a neighborhood.

He owns a company that sells carbon credits

He justifies it by buying carbon credits from himself.

Environmentalism is a religion and like all religions fear creates a flow of money.

Environmentalists tell us that humans are a cancer on the Earth and the earth must rid itself of it

What if the Earth is now at the end of the warming cycle and headed for cooler times?

'Coldest winter in 100 years'

China battles the freezing weather that has stranded millions

Answer 4

As a student, you can be green by making changes to the home, what you buy, and how you commute to places.

Buying environmentally friendly products is a good start. There are many websites that produce fashionable clothing and shoes that are made environmentally friendly. And things such as lightbulbs and bathroom products are made environmentally friendly.

Riding your bike or taking the bus is a good way to be green as well.

Also, take a habit to unplug many of your things around the home. Apparently, a substantial amount of your electricity bill can stem from the fact that everything is plugged into an electrical source, even when turned off. Also make a note to recycle and pick up trash whenever you can.

Answer 5

If you want to be basic at home, recycle, un-plug unused household appliances, dry your clothes on a clothes line, use a compost or green bin and wash your clothes on a cold cycle.

Answer 6

pray

Answer 7

Hello Jenny

A Student can follow the points in day to day life for GREEN Evoluation.

1. Tray to reuce the intake of Cool Drinks. Take two only. You can save Bolltles or Can for Green

2. Always Gift your Friends like Rose Flower/Tulip Flower/etc,

3. Try to reduce the buying of Toys. If you buy also, Play and give it back to Poor Boy or Girl

4. Do not aske your father or Mother about Plastic toys/Cars etc in the Market. ( See from Glass Door of Shop)

5.Celebrate your birthday with Poor Boys or Girls. share your Birhtday cake/Pastry/Biscuts with them. ( Atleaset you can sponser 3 or 4 boys/Girls

IF YOU DO SO, IT IS INDIRECTLY HELPING TO GREEN REVOULATION.

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Answer 8

Some simple things you can start with are..

using less disposable plates and spoons(reduces garbage)

you can bring your own food, like sandwich?

reuse polethene bags from stores

make it a point to recycle, etc.

Answer 9

Put lots of bumper stickers on your cars and get high all the time.  I'm pretty sure that's what most "green" people do.  Just be a hippy but try not to know anything about the actual environment.  Being "Green" is just a trendy lifestyle.

Answer 10

I am a student in Austin, Texas.  I recycle, I ride the bus to school, I have 100% renewable energy through my power company, I unplug anything that is unneeded,  I buy recycled products, I buy organic food, I use rechargeable batteries, I use concentrated laundry detergent.  There are so many things you can do.  I buy larger containers of foods and drinks, I don't eat a lot of meat (the energy that goes into creating one pound of beef is ridiculous), I use a reusable water bottle, I use canvas bags at the grocery store.  I turn down receipts, I pay my bills online, I bring my lunch to school instead of buying something there with a lot of waste.  I am trying to do as much as I can, but really haven't sacrificed anything.  If you want some more suggestions, let me know. :)

Answer 11

Use recycled paper, turn off the lights, and turn off ur computer when not using it.

Answer 12

I attended the Focus the Nation at Sierra College on 1-31-08. The event was the 2% Solution, a 2% reduction over 40 years to solve GW. Oil is a nonrenewable resource and we are running out-but not soon - $30 Gal for gas. The 2% Solution is ok for the USA for a 10 year plan to cut 20%. But over those 10 years, we have to be building renewable energy and about that time, we can cut an additional 20%. This should get us from importing any oil. We must have a pollution surcharge where we pay the real price (health effects, GW and cleanup) for oil, NG, coal, cigarettes, Cooling Towers, Cars, trains and airplanes. Humans have to put some of this nonrenewable into renewable energy like small hydro-electric dams, concentrating solar power plants, wind and wave machines, nuks, and geothermal. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, peak NG in the 1990’s, having mined cheep coal, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, and the peak of uranium in the 1990’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation.

Many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more dramatic destruction.  Blacktop and buildings (roads, roofs and parking lots-heat cities), deforestation (air pollution, soil erosion), duststorms (increase hurricanes and cyclones, cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's) and solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels and increased lung and other diseases); these human problems we must fix to keep life on earth sustainable! Humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain forest, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms.

The result is:  change is on the way, we just do not know what changes (where and when). Look beyond the hype, beyond the weather, beyond a quarterly report and beyond today. President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected. The fact is Bush wants to buy your food to send to starving people since our is not available.

Over the next 90 years carbon dioxide is projected to skyrocket as human’s burn more fossil fuels. The problem is, the oil will be gone in 30 years at present rates of consumption without projected increases. We have to come up with what will take its place. Again we have to cleanup our mess. One of the big problems we have is at some time Yellowstone will blow its top again, as the magma move closer to the surface, creating a nuk winter. After that we will not have to worry about the destruction of the ozone layer.

But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with current evidence! But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and it forms clouds cooling earth but sometimes causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). The USA Mayor's have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small ones all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and has not even started).

That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight where you can learn more about earth, the atmosphere, and how to sustain life on earth’s surface.